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"Analysts attribute the trend partly to demographics. The so-called echo boom generation — the children of Korea's second baby boom, born between 1991 and 1995 — is now entering what experts consider peak marrying age, providing a natural boost to both marriage and birth figures.
“Policy efforts by central and local governments to eliminate marriage-related penalties appear to be influencing young people's attitudes toward marriage,” a ministry official said."
"Peak marrying age" do these scientists post to 4chan?
One is statistics, the other is incel.
South Korea will soon have a fertility rate higher than many western countries. What will then be the new country that people obsessively make youtube videos about disappearing?
Ummm you know is still nowherenear enough, 0.9 is far far from the maintenance rate
This has been brought up before but many have noted the hypocrisy of the entire internet being obsessed with the fertility rate of South Korea when it isn't that much different from the rest of the world.
Why is Korea touted as a country disappearing when most of the world is in the same situation?
Usually because the below countries have much lower immigration making the issue much more visible.
It’s not really the same is it? (From Our World in Data ).
It matters a lot if the rate is 1.2, over half what’s needed to replace both parents, or 0.7, which is less than a third. The numbers might seem close but the small differences matter a lot.
No? They are both too low? They are not very different.
No, they look not so different because the absolute numbers are not that far off. But if you try to realize what they mean and what it means if this is kept up over multiple generations you will understand that they are very different.
South Korea still cannot recover. The fertility rates across the globe are low, population will decline in the vast majority of countries within the century.
Always Japan
Someone posted an article showing that Japan's birthrate is falling. Japan should analyze the reason for Korea's increase.